Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. In doing so, he "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid and in 1900, patented a stable process for developing it. Hence, we have aspirin.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110153183 | Traffic analysis based on historical global positioning system data A method of analyzing traffic by a system includes receiving sequential location measurements from users of the system, mapping the received sequential location measurements to a digital map and determining traffic information for a first time period based on mapped seq... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110140968 | A LEAN V2X SECURITY PROCESSING STRATEGY USING KINEMATICS INFORMATION OF VEHICLES A vehicle-to-vehicle communication filtering system is provided to selectively process broadcast messages between a host vehicle and a remote vehicle. A processing unit evaluates a time-to-collision status between the host vehicle and the remote vehicle sending the mess... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20090228172 | VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE POSITION AWARENESS SYSTEM AND RELATED OPERATING METHOD A vehicle-to-vehicle position awareness system that utilizes wireless communication techniques is provided. An embodiment of the system includes a detection and ranging system located on a host vehicle, where the detection and ranging system is configured to sense a nei... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090189814 | Radar device and target detection method A target position is estimated in such a manner to maintain target position continuity, with high accuracy, even when the X coordinate displacement of the target is large. On a scan in which the target position is not detected, when a trajectory of the target in the pas... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090140925 | Multilateration Enhancements for Noise and Operations Management Multilateration techniques are used to provide accurate aircraft tracking data for aircraft on the ground and in the vicinity of an airport. From this data, aircraft noise and operations management may be enhanced. Aircraft noise may be calculated virtually using track ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090135065 | Object Detecting Apparatus and Method for Detecting an Object An object detection apparatus includes a radar means that detects the position of an object; an imaging means that detects the position and size of an object; a fusion processing means that fuses the object detected by the radar means and the object detected by the imag... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20080036659 | CORRELATION OF FLIGHT TRACK DATA WITH OTHER DATA SOURCES A method of triangulating aircraft transponder signals using a number of receivers connected to a central station over communication links includes applying at least one logic rule at each receiver to incoming transponder signals to filter redundant transponder signals,... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070200761 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING ADS-B SECURITY Security of ADS-B transmissions is improved in a first embodiment to detect position spoofing. The annunciated position source may then be compared with the derived source and a determination is made regarding the difference between the results. Any position difference ... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20060187120 | Traffic monitoring apparatus To provide a traffic monitoring apparatus capable of accurately determining the number of objects present in an area under surveillance without being affected by the difference in arrangement of those objects. Included is an object information acquiring device 1A... | 08/24/2006 |